![]() ![]() Their length was in their favour, I thought This particular volume seems to represent her longer short stories there are only five in the book – Don’t Look Now Not After Midnight A Border-Line Case The Way of the Cross and The Breakthrough – but at forty to fifty pages each they make a substantial volume. The first thing to say is that while I knew du Maurier as a prolific novelist it had never struck me that she was almost as prolific a short story writer, with at least half-a-dozen collections to her name. Shamefully, it never crossed my mind to actually read one of her books, but recently I found a secondhand copy of the handsomely jacketed Penguin Modern Classics edition of Don’t Look Now & Other Stories and in a very belated attempt to address this omission I read it over the weekend. ![]() At that time Penguin published every title and while du Maurier was perhaps no longer at the height of her popularity her books still sold in dependable quantities alongside other popular Penguin authors such as H.E. ![]() When I was a bookseller I must have handled hundreds, possibly thousands, of Daphne du Maurier’s books. Posted on Don’t Look Now & Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier ![]()
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